Njeri: Shaping environmental conservation through modelling
Studies assert that a good number of projects rooted in environmental sustainability involve replanting forests, preserving wetlands, and protecting natural areas from resource harvesting.
One of the most significant environmental problems today is outdoor air...
Hopes high in Vihiga as The Water Project, county, ink MOU
Situated on Africa’s eastern coast, Kenya is typically a very humid country with intermittent water shortages brought on by current global warming, which also causes significant drought and flooding in various regions.
The situation is...
Alarm as wetlands in Nyamira dwindle
Tente area on the outskirts of Nyamira Town, Nyamira County- Kenya, is fast becoming an estate of brick and mortar.
This is good news until one mentions that the name Tente in the local Gusii dialect means...
Innovative Environmental approaches expected as AfriGEO Symposium closes
The 6th African Group on Earth Observation community (AfriGEO) Symposium ended on November 1 in Accra, Ghana.
The two-day programme leaned towards the theme: Harnessing EO towards resilient and sustainable systems, communities and resources.
Over 500...
Climate Change: Current and future ramifications in Kenya
According to United Nations, Climate Change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle.
But since the 1800s, human activities have been...
Growing Africa’s energy sector by tapping available renewable resources
There is a huge demand for affordable modern sources of energy in the continent.
Africa has the world’s lowest levels of per capita use of modern energy attributable to its increasingly high population.
Countries such as...
RIC2022: Using Geo-Spatial Data to Map and Monitor Available Resources
Increasingly, Earth Observation (EO) is being identified as an important enabler in addressing food security, both in Africa and the world over - Digital Earth Africa
As technology advancements continue to shape the world, more...
Writers Space Africa’s Uganda and Lesotho chapters on friendly climate change debate
As J. Michael Strazynski, an American author and filmmaker put it, “A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument and the occasional bar fight.”
A probable question would be, "Do writers also debate?"
Well, there's a...
